Dan Conley

We have arrived at the heart of the movie. Veronique gets off a train at St. Lazare and begins to explore the soundscape around her, hoping it leads her to Alexandre. She looks so small and fragile in this crowd and she soon comes face to face with someone from

There’s something melancholy about this segment of the film, but maybe that’s just me. It begins with her in music class, and for a group of young children, they sure seem to be doing a wonderful job with Van den Budenmayer. Except Veronique doesn’t like what she’

It’s funny just how rare it is to see characters in movies or TV shows reading. Veronique apparently didn’t just buy one of Alexandre’s books, she seems to have bought them all. And she’s surrounded herself on her bed with them and appears to be devouring

I mentioned yesterday the main difference between Weronika and Veronique, that of awareness. Veronique lives in a higher level of consciousness because she is attuned to the world and receptive to lessons. The most important thing I have taken away from my years’ long study of Michel de Montaigne, supplemented

As we’ll see in this segment, Weronika and Veronique are not exactly alike. But they do share very warm, loving relationships with their fathers, and in this scene, Veronique drives home to see her dad. He seems to live in a very lovely cottage in the French countryside. We

We next see Veronique in her classroom, where she has put on the blackboard notations for a piece of music she says that she enjoys. Veronique says it was only recently “discovered” but was composed over 200 years ago by a Dutch composer. It is, of course, the piece by